Comment by thunky

Clojure has some pretty big downsides last i looked:

- syntax is hard to read unless you spend a lot time getting used to it

- convention for short var names makes it even harder

- function definition order makes it even harder

- too dynamic for most people's taste

- no type safety

- the opposite of boring

- no clear use case to show it clearly beating other languages

- niche with small community and job market

- JVM

For all those reasons its a hard sell for most imo.